"We hope and pray that Democrats and Republicans can agree that there will be no loss of representation on the minority side," Brooks says. "We understand the politics of redistricting and we understand it clearly. We just hope that in the fallout, the African-American lawmakers who are in power today will not be so drastically affected that they will be drawn out of their district or merged into the same district."

Brooks says, potential losses to minority representation in the south could be offset by gains in Metro Atlanta.

The weekend meeting of the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials also plans to honor former Atlanta Mayor and UN ambassador Andrew Young.